[Milsurplus] War Surplus Radio Store recreated?
Joe Connor
joeconnor53 at yahoo.com
Thu Jun 14 21:52:04 EDT 2012
Yes, Leeds it still in business in Brooklyn. Here's their website: http://www.leedsradio.com/ Make sure you check out their blog. It's interesting.
Joe Connor
>________________________________
>From: Bruce Gentry <ka2ivy at verizon.net>
>To: Milsurplus at mailman.qth.net
>Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2012 9:43 PM
>Subject: Re: [Milsurplus] War Surplus Radio Store recreated?
>
>WOW! there is someone else who remembers Meshna. They tended to have
>assemblies and parts more than complete radios, but their latest catalog
>was always welcomed at the nerd table in high school, as was the Fair
>Radio catalog and it's quarterly supplements. I went to G&G in New York
>City in 1975 when they were in their death throes. A couple rooms
>stacked to the ceiling with stuff mostly in boxes, all the good stuff
>long gone. Leeds radio was also getting ready to pull the plug in
>Manhattan, I think they are back in business in Brooklyn today. The
>most tragic I have seen was in Ithaca, New York. It had been closed for
>years, and you could look in the window and see lots of good stuff. I
>was told the owner fell ill and left everything snarled in paperwork. It
>disappeared overnight in the mid 1990's
>
> -Bruce
>
>J. Forster wrote:
>> Or Meshna
>>
>> -John
>>
>> ==========
>>
>>
>>> I often wonder what became of Electro-Craft that was located on
>>> Dorchester Ave.,
>>> Near Grafton St., in the Dorchester section of Boston. Last time I was
>>> by there,
>>> the building was still there, but the sign was gone.
>>> This place had floor to ceiling Surplus Gear, including NIB ARC-5
>>> gear. It would
>>> have been quite a chore to clean out that place.
>>>
>>> 73, Dick, W1KSZ
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
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